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  • BRITISH COASTAL FORCES
    NORMAN FRIEDMAN
    The Royal Navy invented the fast motor torpedo boat during the First World War, and used it and other small coastal craft to great effect during the Second. This book tells the dramatic story of British coastal forces, both offensive and defensive, in both World Wars and beyond. In the Second World War, British coastal forces fought a desperate battle to control the narrow seas...

    $639.99

  • INTOLERANCE
    FRIEDMAN, JEFFREY
    Intolerance of ideas different from one’s own seems to be a common attitude among human beings and, at the same time, something that seems to be more pronounced in recent years. In this volume, political theorists and philosophers consider some of the historical preconditions of modern intolerance and debate the sources of its recent manifestations. From theories of religious i...

    $1,339.00

  • THE LONGING FOR TOTAL REVOLUTION RECONSIDERED
    JEFFREY FRIEDMAN
    In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy that continued through Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, which viewed the essential ...

    $1,339.00

  • NEW PERSPECTIVES ON POPULISM
    JEFFREY FRIEDMAN
    Populism has taken the world by storm—but what is it? In this volume, twelve political scientists and political theorists approach this question from a variety of new perspectives, empirical and theoretic, covering populism around the world. In addition to chapters on populism in Eastern Europe and Britain, six authors analyse populism in the United States, treating it, various...

    $1,339.00

  • HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF RIGHT AFTER 200 YEARS
    SHTERNA FRIEDMAN
    Hegel’s Philosophy of Right (1820) articulated a startling new vision of modern society as an integrated whole governed by the principle of freedom—a vision that profoundly altered political theory and, through Hegel’s influence on Marx, deeply changed the world in which we live. Yet Hegel’s thought is so notoriously obscure that it is difficult to pull together its many comple...

    $1,339.00

  • ISAIAH BERLIN
    JEFFREY FRIEDMAN
    Isaiah Berlin’s liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. Berlin’s vision of liberalism rejected metaphysics, philosophies of history, and particular conceptions of the good, setting a pattern for Anglo-American political thought that is still influential and may offer resources for understanding the resurgence of ideology in the twenty-first ...

    $1,339.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF HEALTH AND MEDIA
    FRIEDMAN, LESTER D.
    The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies. A unique and significant volume in an expanding pedagogical field, this diverse collection of international, original, and interdisciplinary essays goes beyond issu...

    $1,179.00

  • DESIGNING INNOVATIVE SUSTAINABLE NEIGHBORHOODS
    AVI FRIEDMAN
    This book covers fundamental aspects of neighborhood planning and architecture along sustainable principles. Written by a designer and instructor, the book’s fully illustrated chapters provide detailed insights into contemporary strategies that architects, planners and builders are integrating into their thought processes and residential design practices. Past approaches to pla...

    $979.00

  • SHAKESPEARE’S RETURNING WARRIORS – AND OURS
    ALAN WARREN FRIEDMAN
    Shakespeare’s Returning Warriors – and Ours takes its primary inspiration from the contemporary U.S. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) crisis in soldiers transitioning from battlefields back into society. It begins by examining how ancient societies sought to ease the return of soldiers in order to minimize PTSD, though the term did not become widely used until the early 19...

    $1,099.00

  • LEGAL CULTURE AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION
    LAWRENCE M FRIEDMAN
    Distinguished scholars in law and the social sciences examine the state of American legal culture, particularly adversarial legalism, in light of the criticisms of the current anti-lawyer movement. They assess the strengths and weaknesses of this culture, its impact on the broader society, and its recent spread to other countries. The American legal system is under heavy attack...

    $1,039.00

  • SANDPLAY WISDOM
    RIE ROGERS MITCHELL / HARRIET S. FRIEDMAN
    Sandplay Wisdom provides key concepts for understanding and using sandplay therapy effectively, distilling insight from more than four decades of experience. Rie Rogers Mitchell and Harriet S. Friedman provide both core principles and hard-won practical tips to deepen understanding of sandplay therapy for both experienced and novice practitioners. The principles presented provi...

    $899.00

  • INTERNET ADDICTION
    EMALINE FRIEDMAN
    This essential book questions the psychological construct of Internet Addiction by contextualizing it within the digital technological era. It proposes a critical psychology that investigates user subjectivity as a function of capitalism and imperialism, arguing against punitive models of digital excesses and critiquing the political economy of the Internet affecting all users....

    $1,039.00

  • CLINICAL TUBERCULOSIS
    LLOYD N. FRIEDMAN / MARTIN DEDICOAT / PETER D. O. DAVIES
    Entirely updated and revised, the 6th edition of Clinical Tuberculosis continues to provide the TB physician with a definitive and erudite account of the latest techniques in diagnosis, treatment and control of TB, including an overview of the latest guidelines from the CDC and WHO. With an increased emphasis on the clinical aspects and treatment, this book will be an invaluabl...

    $2,600.00

  • PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY, STRESS, AND INFECTION
    HERMAN FRIEDMAN / THOMAS W. KLEIN / ANDREA L. FRIEDMAN
    Psychoneuroimmunology is the emerging science devoted to studying the two-way relationship between the nervous and immune systems. Psychoneuroimmunology, Stress, and Infection highlights the latest information concerning microbial infections in both man and animals as related to stress and especially stress hormones. The volume focuses on psychoneuroimmunology as it impacts the...

    $10,000.00

  • THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRATIZATION
    EDWARD FRIEDMAN
    This collection explores democratic transitions in East Asia, arguing against the standard wisdom that European or Christian value systems and socioeconomic forces are essential for democracy to succeed. Instead the contributors convincingly illustrate that political institutions, which can be built anywhere by skilled coalitions, have the most profound and lasting influence on...

    $739.00

  • THE CRIME CONUNDRUM
    LAWRENCE M FRIEDMAN / GEORGE FISHER
    There may be areas of human life in which people have profited from understanding history, but criminal justice is definitely not one of them. In this field, each generation seems to undo the last generation's reforms. Each generation resurrects old failures and trots them out as new. A previous generation hailed indeterminate sentencing as a great ...

    $1,339.00

  • DREAMTELLING, RELATIONS, AND LARGE GROUPS
    ROBI FRIEDMAN
    Robi Friedman is an experienced group analyst and clinician specializing in conflict resolution, and in this important collection of his work, he presents his most innovative concepts. Dreamtelling is an original approach to the sharing of dreams with partners or within families, exploring how the dreamer’s unconscious messages can be communicated, and helping to contain emotio...

    $999.00

  • ABSORPTION AND UTILIZATION OF AMINO ACIDS
    MENDEL FRIEDMAN
    Containing 45 papers written by outstanding international authors from 14 countries, this three-volume compendium brings together the elements needed to understand the factors which influence the utilization of amino acids. The wide-ranging topics include descriptions of metabolic pathways and mechanisms of the biological utilization of amino acids, as well as factors that infl...

    $5,400.00

  • THE NATURE OF BELIEF SYSTEMS RECONSIDERED
    JEFFREY FRIEDMAN AND SHTERNA FRIEDMAN
    In the foundational document of modern public-opinion research, Philip E. Converse’s "The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics" (1964) established the U.S. public’s startling political ignorance. This volume makes Converse’s long out-of-print article available again and brings together a variety of scholars, including Converse himself, to reflect on Converse’s findings afte...

    $1,179.00

  • THE DOUBLE AUCTION MARKET
    DANIEL FRIEDMAN
    This book focuses on markets organized as double auctions in which both buyers and sellers can submit bids and asks for standardized units of well-defined commodities and securities. It examines evidence from the laboratory and computer simulations. ...

    $1,399.00

  • ABSORPTION AND UTILIZATION OF AMINO ACIDS
    MENDEL FRIEDMAN
    Containing 45 papers written by outstanding international authors from 14 countries, this three-volume compendium brings together the elements needed to understand the factors which influence the utilization of amino acids. The wide-ranging topics include descriptions of metabolic pathways and mechanisms of the biological utilization of amino acids, as well as factors that infl...

    $5,400.00

  • ABSORPTION AND UTILIZATION OF AMINO ACIDS
    MENDEL FRIEDMAN
    Containing 45 papers written by outstanding international authors from 14 countries, this three-volume compendium brings together the elements needed to understand the factors which influence the utilization of amino acids. The wide-ranging topics include descriptions of metabolic pathways and mechanisms of the biological utilization of amino acids, as well as factors that infl...

    $5,400.00

  • PALESTINE: A TWICE-PROMISED LAND?
    ISAIAH FRIEDMAN
    In this book, Isaiah Friedman examines one of the most complex problems that bedeviled Middle East politics in the interwar period, one that still remains controversial. The prevailing view is that during World War I the British government made conflicting commitments to the Arabs, to the French, and to the Jews. Through a rigorous examination of the documentary evidence, Fried...

    $1,279.00

  • RELIGION AND PEACE
    YVONNE FRIEDMAN
    This volume represents a departure from the prevailing emphasis on religion and war in the medieval and early modern periods. Instead, the book explores the relationship between religion and peace in the context of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, both as an ideal and on the practical level. The Introduction, which proposes a holistic model for analysis of violence/nonviolence...

    $1,099.00

  • THE OPTIMUM QUANTITY OF MONEY
    MILTON FRIEDMAN
    This classic set of essays by Nobel Laureate and leading monetary theorist Milton Friedman presents a coherent view of the role of money, focusing on specific topics related to the empirical analysis of monetary phenomena and policy. The early chapters cover factors determining the real quantity of money held in a community and the welfare implications of policies that affect t...

    $1,339.00

  • ISRAELI DISCOURSE AND THE WEST BANK
    ELIE FRIEDMAN / DALIA GAVRIELY-NURI
    How can irregular political situations, which impact the lives of millions, become normalized? Specifically, within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how can 50 years of Israeli control over the Occupied Territories become accepted within Israeli society as a normal, possibly even banal phenomenon? Conversely, how can such a situation be estranged from daily real...

    $1,099.00

  • CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES
    LEO BREIMAN / JEROME FRIEDMAN / R.A. OLSHEN / CHARLES J. STONE
    The methodology used to construct tree structured rules is the focus of this monograph. Unlike many other statistical procedures, which moved from pencil and paper to calculators, this text's use of trees was unthinkable before computers. Both the practical and theoretical sides have been developed in the authors' study of tree methods. Classification and Regression Trees refle...

    $2,800.00

  • JEWS AND THE AMERICAN SLAVE TRADE
    SAUL FRIEDMAN
    The Nation of Islam's Secret Relationship between Blacks and Jews has been called one of the most serious anti-Semitic manuscripts published in years. This work of so-called scholars received great celebrity from individuals like Louis Farrakhan, Leonard Jeffries, and Khalid Abdul Muhammed who used the document to claim that Jews dominated both transatlantic and antebellum Sout...

    $1,179.00

  • GOD LAUGHED
    HERSHEY H. FRIEDMAN
    Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews, organizes, and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts-the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Midrash-in a clear, readable, and accessible manner. These works have influenced the Jewish people in many ways, an...

    $1,179.00

  • BRITISH MISCALCULATIONS
    ISAIAH FRIEDMAN
    In the aftermath of World War I there was furious agitation throughout Islam against the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire. Coupled with the powerful effect of the principle of self-determination, British indifference to Muslim sentiments gave rise to militant nationalism in Islam-which became de facto anti-Western. This detailed and convincing account describes British indec...

    $1,239.00


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